Accepting Ads, has it helped fund the site?

If you accept ads on your site, have you found that it helps pay for it? Or are you more into doing mutual exchanges of advertising with other sites?

In my case I have not made that good an amount of money, in fact, not worth having! SO What I look at now is more towards exchnages and or point system 🙂 I also end up making more if people went drict to me

Back in the day, I would sell ads on AAF 1.0.

I remember getting like $250 a month from one advertiser for several months straight.

It paid my hosting for many months.

Nowadays, I don’t really accept ads. At least not on forums.

On Oct 7, 2026, Shawn said:

Back in the day, I would sell ads on AAF 1.0.

I remember getting like $250 a month from one advertiser for several months straight.

It paid my hosting for many months.

Nowadays, I don’t really accept ads. At least not on forums.

Whoa! I had no idea forums could make that much per month. Was that a unique situation or do you think it was commonplace?